The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (995 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1555977774 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Edwidge Danticat is the author of many books, most recently Claire of the Sea Light and Brother, I’m Dying. . She is a two-time finalist for the National Book Award, and has received the National Book Critics Circle Award and other honors
A moving tribute and a work of astute criticism, The Art of Death is a book that will profoundly alter all who encounter it.. “I have been writing about death for as long as I have been writing.” The book moves outward from the shock of her mother’s diagnosis and sifts through Danticat’s writing life and personal history, all the while shifting fluidly from examples that range from Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude to Toni Morrison’s Sula. “Writing has been the primary way I have tried to make sense of my losses,” Danticat notes in her introduction. The narrative, which continually circles the
“This book is a kind of prayer for her mother an act of mourning and remembrance, a purposeful act of grieving. The penultimate section of The Art of Death culminates with a prayerthat manages to accomplish everything Danticat does throughout The Art of Death: leave you wanting more, while knowing in your heart that what you were given was just enough.”Miami Rail“Danticat’s literary reach is impressiveespecially so in a book that spans fewer than 200 pages. This slim volume wraps literary criticism, philosophy, and memoir into a gracefully circling whole, echoing the nature of grief as ‘circles and circles of sorrow.’”Publishers Weekly. The Art of De